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Pew Research Center, 2015
Scientific innovations are deeply embedded in national life--in the economy, in core policy choices about how people care for themselves and use the resources around them, and in the topmost reaches of Americans' imaginations. New Pew Research Center surveys of citizens and a representative sample of scientists connected to the American…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Public Opinion, National Surveys, Scientists
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Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lederman, Norman G. – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
This study explores the relationship, if any, between an individual's culturally based worldviews and conceptions of nature of science. In addition, the implications of this relationship (or lack of relationship) for science teaching and learning are discussed. Participants were 54 Taiwanese prospective science teachers. Their conceptions of…
Descriptors: World Views, Scientific Enterprise, Science Curriculum, Science Teachers
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Fisher, Darrell L.; Waldrip, Bruce G. – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1999
Describes the development and validation of an instrument for assessing culturally-sensitive factors of students' learning environments and for examining associations between these factors, students' achievement of inquiry skills, students' attitudes toward science, and teacher/student interactions. Discusses findings related to instrument…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Classroom Environment, Culturally Relevant Education, Inquiry